EUR-Lex Scraper - EU Regulations, Directives & Case Law

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Extract EU legislative documents from EUR-Lex — the official database of European Union law. Returns structured records for regulations, directives, decisions, judgments, treaties, and proposals with CELEX IDs, ELI URIs, EuroVoc subject classifications, amendment trees, legal basis references, national transpositions, and full-text/PDF/XML URLs.

Built for LegalTech platforms, compliance teams, regulatory researchers, and AI training pipelines that need structured access to EU legal data at scale.

What It Does

The scraper queries the EUR-Lex SPARQL endpoint (publications.europa.eu/webapi/rdf/sparql) using the EU Cellar Common Data Model. Six query modes let you target exactly the documents you need:

Output Fields

Input Configuration

Required

• Query Mode (mode) — One of: by_keyword, by_celex_id, by_eurovoc_subject, by_date_range, by_document_type, recent_acts
• Max Items (maxItems) — Maximum number of records to return (1–50,000)

Optional

• Search Query / CELEX ID / EuroVoc Subject (query) — Keyword(s) for by_keyword; CELEX number for by_celex_id; EuroVoc label for by_eurovoc_subject
• Document Type Filter (documentType) — Narrow results to: Regulation, Directive, Decision, Opinion, Judgment, Proposal (Regulation), Proposal (Directive), Treaty
• Date From / Date To (dateFrom, dateTo) — Publication date range for by_date_range mode (format: YYYY-MM-DD)
• Lookback Days (lookbackDays) — Days to look back for recent_acts mode (1–365, default: 30)
• Include Amendment Tree (includeAmendments) — Resolve amends / amended_by relationships (default: true)
• Include National Transpositions (includeTranspositions) — Fetch national implementing measures — one extra SPARQL call per document, slower (default: false)

Example Inputs

Find AI Act and related regulations:

{
"mode":"by_keyword",
"query":"artificial intelligence",
"documentType":"REG",
"maxItems":20
}

Fetch the AI Act by CELEX ID:

{
"mode":"by_celex_id",
"query":"32024R1689",
"maxItems":1
}

Recent regulations from the last 30 days:

{
"mode":"recent_acts",
"lookbackDays":30,
"documentType":"REG",
"maxItems":100
}

All data governance legislation:

{
"mode":"by_date_range",
"dateFrom":"2020-01-01",
"dateTo":"2025-12-31",
"query":"data governance",
"maxItems":500
}

Performance Notes

• The SPARQL endpoint is open — no proxy or authentication required.
• Each document requires two SPARQL calls (discovery + enrichment). National transpositions add a third call per document.
• For large result sets (>1,000), allow sufficient timeout. The actor default is 4 hours.
• Rate limiting is applied automatically between queries to respect the endpoint.

Data Source

All data is sourced directly from the EUR-Lex SPARQL endpoint — the authoritative EU Cellar linked data repository maintained by the Publications Office of the European Union. Data is structured using the Common Data Model (CDM) ontology.

EUR-Lex is an official EU website; its data is in the public domain under the EUR-Lex copyright notice.